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Keywords

Applied Linguistics, TESOL, Language assessment, Lexis, Vocabulary, Corpus linguistics, Learner corpora, Second Language Acquisition, Teacher education, Language pedagogy

Countries

Canada

Biography

Ben Naismith is a Senior Assessment Scientist for the Duolingo English Test. Ben has worked in numerous contexts as a teacher, teacher trainer, materials developer, assessment specialist, and researcher. He holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics, and his research interests include second language acquisition, corpus linguistics, language assessment, and teacher education.

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Works (19)

The impact of collocational proficiency features on expert ratings of L2 English learners’ writing

Studies in Second Language Acquisition
2025-02-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/S0272263125000075
Contributors: Ben Naismith; Alan Juffs
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Using Lesson Study to develop teacher educators’ language assessment literacy

Language Assessment Literacy and Competence Volume 2: Case Studies from Around the World
2024 | Book chapter
Contributors: Magnus Coney; Ben Naismith
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The impact of task duration on the scoring of independent writing responses of adult L2-English writers

Assessing Writing
2024-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.asw.2024.100895
Contributors: Ben Naismith; Yigal Attali; Geoffrey T. LaFlair
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Computer-adaptive language testing: Focus on language issues

The Concise Companion to Language Assessment (5th Ed)
2024-10-21 | Book chapter
Contributors: Ramsey Cardwell; Ben Naismith; Micheline Chalhoub-Deville
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Finding the sweet spot: Learners’ productive knowledge of mid-frequency lexical items

Language Teaching Research
2024-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/13621688211020412
Contributors: Ben Naismith; Alan Juffs
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From Pen to Pixel

CALICO Journal
2024-05-24 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1558/cj.27104
Contributors: Ramsey Cardwell; Ben Naismith; Jill Burstein; Steven Nydick; Sarah Goodwin; Anthony Verardi
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“I'm not a walking dictionary”

2024-01-03 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.4324/9781003379300-12
Contributors: Ben Naismith; Leo Selivan
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Ensuring Fairness of Human- and AI-Generated Test Items

2023 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-36336-8_108
Contributors: William C. M. Belzak; Ben Naismith; Jill Burstein
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Assessing Listening on the Duolingo English Test

2023-06-13 | Report
DOI: 10.46999/CORJ9896
Contributors: Sarah Goodwin; Ben Naismith
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Assessing Speaking on the Duolingo English Test

2023-06-12 | Report
DOI: 10.46999/DJIY3654
Contributors: Yena Park; Ramsey Cardwell; Sarah Goodwin; Ben Naismith; Geoffrey LaFlair; Kai-Ling Lo; Kevin Yancey
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Duolingo English Test :Technical Manual

2023-05-01 | Report
DOI: 10.46999/CQNG4625
Contributors: Ramsey Cardwell; Ben Naismith; Geoffrey LaFlair; Steven Nydick
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Handle it in-house?

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
2022-07-13 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.20024.nai
Contributors: Ben Naismith; Alan Juffs; Na-Rae Han; Daniel Zheng
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The University of Pittsburgh English Language Institute Corpus (PELIC)

International Journal of Learner Corpus Research
2022-03-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1075/ijlcr.21002.nai
Contributors: Ben Naismith; Na-Rae Han; Alan Juffs
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A Corpus Study of the English Suffixes -<i>ness</i> and -<i>acy</i>: Productivity, Genre, and Implications for L2 Learning

Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue Canadienne de Linguistique Appliquée
2021 | Journal article
WOSUID: WOS:000612466900007
Contributors: Naismith, Ben; Kanwit, Matthew
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Multiword sequences in English language learners' speech: The relationship between trigrams and lexical variety across development

System
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/J.SYSTEM.2021.102494
WOSUID: WOS:000643325600016
Contributors: Vercellotti, Mary Lou; Juffs, Alan; Naismith, Ben
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A Corpus Study of the English Suffixes -ness and -acy: Productivity, Genre, and Implications for L2 Learning

Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics
2021-01-22 | Journal article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37213/cjal.2021.28995
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The University of Pittsburgh English Language Corpus (PELIC)

2020-08-19 | Dataset
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.3991977
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Accurate Measurement of Lexical Sophistication in ESL with Reference to Learner Data

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, EDM 2018, Buffalo, NY, USA, July 15-18, 2018
2018 | Conference paper
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http://educationaldatamining.org/files/conferences/EDM2018/papers/EDM2018\_paper\_37.pdf
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Integrating corpus tools on intensive CELTA courses

English Language Teaching Journal
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/ELT/CCW076
WOSUID: WOS:000405512500001
Contributors: Naismith, Ben
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Peer review (1 review for 1 publication/grant)

Review activity for Language teaching research (1)
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